The largest offshore wind farm in the world | 60 Minutes
Off the coast of Grimsby, England, more than 300 wind turbines produce electricity to help power over 2 million homes a day. Sharyn Alfonsi reports on how the turbines work and how the project has been received.
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She mentioned 14% wind? - I don't know where she got that number from but Imperial college, London said 32.4% of the UK's electricity came from Wind in the first quarter of 2023 which was more than Gas for the first time!
Also it was probably an annual figure - the first quarter is in winter so it'll very likely be more windy.
@@alexjn5460 no, I did read it back and she did say off shore, but I just fell this is a disingenuous answer, as it made it sound like we don't have that much wind power here🤔
@@markreed9853Wasn't she just referring to the Hornsea wind farms? 32.4% might be the total and 14% comes from Hornsea alone.
@@krashd yes, I've already replied about that but I found it quite disingenuous just mentioning that.
in november last year the winds were good and we managed to generate over 50% of our energy needs from wind alone.
You know what's uglier then a wind turbine off the coast? Burning forests and their smoke, devastation caused by flooding, tornadoes and hurricanes and all their impact on the economy, wildlife, homes, etc.
I find wind turbines more aesthetically pleasing than oil tankers and coal freighters, and the oil slicks and smoke plumes they release. Never mind the pipelines and/or lines of trucks from the ports they deliver to.
@@tommythompson2743 Better to use oil for making long-lasting stuff than simply burning it, wouldn’t you say that’s your argument? So we’re aligned using petroleum for energy is a bad use.
What you're seeing in modern emission controlled plants is condensing water vapor not smoke. All greenhouse radiant energy from the earth is completely absorbed in earth's greenhouse effect within 20 meters of the surface. Non is left over to further react with greenhouse gases. There is no mechanism that would allow greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming or cause floods, tornados or hurricanes. The back of the UN IPCC science report states it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20,000 meters altitude where it is common high school level knowledge there is no greenhouse radiant energy. This is typical misleading marketing practice to have a legal statement of data transparency to protect the perpetrators from fraud prosecution.
Wind works. Today it has been extra windy here in Denmark, it meant our Wind turbines delivered something like 120% of the total electricity demand of our nation causing prices to even dipped below 0 (surplus means exporting and this not always possible). For the first six months of 2023 wind and solar stood for 68% of the electricity used here, so while good we still must improve. Financially wind makes sense in all sorts of ways, not only is it cheap it also means not having to import fossil fuel or being able to use that elsewhere if needed (or better yet, just leave the dirty stuff in the ground).
Wind works, except when it doesn't.
@@liberatumplox625 And you're clever until you're not.
What timing on Orsted. We've got them setting up on our port in the NE USA Coast. Looking forward for the green electricity in our neck of the world. Wishing I was younger so I could work on those turbines.
@@liberatumplox625which is why you also need plenty of storage. Pumped hydro is very good. It can be done off river so it doesn't disrupt river ecosystems. It is wise to keep existing gas plants available for emergency backup too. If they get used a few days per year the emissions won't be too much.
@@arrell1xyz I really love Octopus Energy. Up until recently, when I moved to a new house, I was using Octopus Energy in two different houses and they were a great provider. Not only for giving clear information about where they got their energy from, but also really good fast customer service, which I really appreciated.
Wind power has actually generated nearly 30% of the UK's electricity in 2023 🙂
50% for significant periods.
Where does the OTHER 70% come from
At what cost to the environment? The Greenies never account for embedded energy in their culture religion of climate change. They are just part of CCP marketing.
What no one mentioned is that uk electricity price is tied to the price of natural gas so even with more renewables the price doesn’t automatically drop
Nuclear doesn't require natural gas backup. 😊
@@gregorymalchuk272nuclear does require natural gas peaker plants, actually. Nuclear is good for base load only and is very difficult to turn up and down.
@@GregHassler France uses their nuclear reactors in load-following mode negating the need for natural gas peaking. Nuclear power generating units can slew 80% of their output in 30 seconds, faster than just about any other source, and way faster than coal or gas.
@@gregorymalchuk272Ramping down the output from a nuclear reactor has always been quick and easy (you can take them to 0% in the blink of an eye), it is ramping them up that takes many hours because removing control rods does not have the immediate effect that inserting them does, so technicians have to raise output slowly step by step.
Because natural gas is our biggest source of energy, that's why it's tied to it. It accounts for about 60% of the energy produced in the uk. Wind power is less than 2%
Can’t believe people are against this
Nobody's against it it's just not practical sure make up a few percent with it it's not going to change much you'd have to fill the whole ocean up with wind turbines and it still wouldn't meet the demand
Times constantly change. While they bemoan the loss of the fisheries boom they enjoyed for decades, they omit the fact that it was based on exploiting the resources of another country - the boom was based on mindlessly exploiting the fishing grounds of Iceland. That eventually ended. I am glad Grimsby is finally enjoying a revival by using a resource closer to home. I sincerely wish them all the best.
then exploit a different natural resource.
@@archmad Is that supposed to make some sort of sense?
@@archmad, the wind offshore can only be considered VERY renewable, so I see no problem. Also, the area allocated is heir own resource that is not used for much else, and wind farms do not impede fishing.
Yes, rather ironic. Their boom period was based on the theft of Icelands natural resouces continuing the exploitation by the British Empire had done elsewhere for centuries.
@@archmad But you don't see Icelanders coming over here and nicking our wind, so it's not really a parallel
The electricity cost is set by the peaker plants and those are fossil fueled. This deserves a more in depth report. Also we should be doing this in the US.
that's where utility scale batteries (mega packs, as deployed successfully in Australia and many other places now) and more importantly, VPPs (Virtual power plants, made up of thousands of home battery backups networked together) come in.
Also: When fossils drive the up the energy price, green suppliers rake in the money which draws in more green investment. Also: More green energy means less demand for fossils, which lowers their price.
I’m American and work on Hornsea wind farm. I’ll be back in the US soon to work on the offshore wind farms Orsted is currently building. Offshore wind will be big business in the US in coming years.
@@xiaoka- And Tesla Energy is leading in this area and growing fast, they just announced another Megapack production line is going to be put in at the Lathrop, CA Megapack factory. When completed next year the factory will be producing about 10,000 Megapacks a yr.
@@xiaokaBatteries are not within an order of magnitude of a competitive price, and the price can't go down much further due to the commodity materials cost making up 70% of the cost.
You always hear about how "expensive" renewables is to build, as if every other energy transition in our history has been cheap. The transition to gas and oil was absolutely not cheap and neither was the infrastructure that followed. Building massive rigs, drilling, fracking, moving from rail to building sprawling highways and roads and the numerous costs associated with the climate impact. Every major transition came at a cost, the aim is to be more cost beneficial and less disruptive than the last and this is a good place to start. There is no one size fits all solution
It's like how the nuclear lobby loves to complain about the difficulty of recycling wind turbine blades, but they never ask themselves how many decommissioned nuclear power plants have ever been recycled? Answer: *Zero.* Wind turbine blades are inert so you can safely bury them just like rocks, and the support structure and nacelles at the top are mostly clean metal which gets recycled after decommissioning.
ya these things are actually quite inexpensive vs other infrastructure. Cost is main reason nuclear is sort of dead in the water.
Nuclear fusion is the holy grail.
You always hear about how "expensive" renewables are because that's the message that the deep-pocketed fossil fuel industries are pumping out. And if they can label renewables as "liberal", that makes the message all the more effective for them.
Saudi Arabia has .10 cent per gallon gas.
Bridi is a trooper, we need more people like her in the trades.
I AGREE. How does this industry find them and encourage towns and cities to encourage them for this?
Hartford? Which Hartford are you in?
@@robertlee8805 "How does this industry find them and encourage towns and cities to encourage them for this?" Because the company offers structured training at a local college combined with on the job work experience - with a well paid job at the end of it - and there are, on average, 3 locals chasing every job in the town. The new energy systems are going to need appropriate skills in many different fields - from young ladies like Bridi to guys fitting heat pumps in peoples' houses. Trained specialists are going to be the bottleneck with many of these new technologies that are being rolled out - so governments (both local and national) need to identify them and start training in numbers.
Projects like this could save life on Earth. It is much better than doing nothing.
Here here. The US reeeeally needs to catch up critically with us in Europe ASAP.
It's literally the opposite it's destroying life like whales and dolphins but everyone's too delusional to see it
How do you know wind mills wont cause climate change by slowing down the wind?
Indeed!
Bit of an exaggeration, but yes it is important to reduce our emissions this way
I had a customer in Grimsby, when I worked in the UK selling Canadian timber. Visited there 2 or 3 times in the late 80s. Fond memories of the people. 😃
shame its gone downhill from the 80's
Oh hell yes. I was an aircraft mechanic and considered going into this in the US because the skills transfer but went into aerospace manufacturing, which took me around the world in austere locations for rocket launch. Now I sit behind a desk and look at this with envy. Miss the adventure when I was a younger man.
It's hard for me to imagine that there will be enough young, able, and willing folks to scale this up as much as we need.
Imagine, as an aircraft mechanic...that the blades of a turbine look exactly like a 747 on Doppler Radar, because they do, and it's a problem.
What's the pay?
I don’t see the question
Hey, there are now operations in the US on the east coast with helicopters included. Look into Heliservice, I am sure they will need mechanics!
UK electricity prices have risen because of the soaring cost of natural gas. Wind projects are by far the cheapest source of new generation.
In the USA wind turbine farm costs have always increased electric rates.
Amazing engineering
I hope the wind farms are installed in a much quicker way and more open minds to understand the big picture. Nice video too.
Spot on, this is crazy.. Down the track will our power bills be lower ?? 😕 Au
The ludicrous thing about UK electricity is that it is tied to natural gas prices, so no matter how cheaply you make electricity the price will only go down when gas prices goes down
When we have enough wind power that we can do without gas for many days the price will drop a lot. It'll go back up on days with low wind, but the average will be lower.
Or if you change your cost structure to the average cost of generation.
Yes but when we have enough reliable wind and nuclear power and gas is not the majority power supply in the Uk that will change that why France hasn’t had exorbitant bills like the rest of Europe during the increased cost of gas during the Ukraine War because there whole grid is nuclear
@@chazzerbox131 Nuclear is OK but there is a long lead time for construction and they do have to shut down from time to time for maintenance and refuelling but even in the UK we have enough sunlight to make Solar viable with grid storage. So we dont need to go down the expensive Nuclear to the extent the French has. Nuclear has a high CAPEX which is long and investors don't see a ROI for a long time unlike Solar and Wind which are fast to install and cheap, with very low OPEX, so investors prefer investing on this route to faster/larger profits.
@@stevehayward1854 true but we have investment in rolls Royce new Small Modular Reactors built in factory and only size of football field which will be much more cost efficient and lot less lead time less need for larger rectors we already have the top 4 largest wind farms so yeah hopefully gas will become more of exported for Uk also I do agree solar should be a mandatory for all new builds now and gov. needs to change its view for onshore wind maybe
What they didn't mention is how much higher their power bills would have gone without the wind turbines. Wind and solar power have pulled power prices down, or kept them from soaring, and have mostly eliminated black and brownouts we used to see all the time. Solar, wind + batteries, and EV's are the obvious and welcomed future.
California would like to differ. We're a frontrunner on wind and solar and have consistent brownouts each summer and among the highest energy prices in the nation.
Yep they would have to used much more expensive gas without wind.
I am an actual solar panel owner and to be honest it was a terrible decision. My monthly payments are higher for the solar panels then paying for electricity that I may be getting from nuclear power or natural gas(Dade county/Miami). I also have to pay for extra electricity because during the spring, summer, and fall I have the A/C going because it’s hot 95-98% of the year. In 15 years I was told I will have to replace them because they will not be as efficient as they are now which is also when my payments will be done which was a 15 year plan on the ones I have now. I pay $170 every month on average and is the lowest depending on usage but the price only goes up if I need extra power from the grid for solar panels for the month. I was paying anywhere from $80-$190 a month using FP&L’s power(Florida Power and Lighting)… my next project is looking up which politicians/how many are invested in these “green energy” companies because as of now I don’t see the cost savings or the environmental savings.
Using natural resources such as oil and coal would remain the cheapest forms . Solar or wind is extraordinarily more expensive to build, and maintain
Aside from the fact that they're turbines NOT windmills. They draw power to start them and keep them running in cold weather when there's no wind. As for you saying that they're pulling prices down, that's conjecture. The price to build and operate them though isn't, and it's astronomical. As of yet they're not cost effective, as anyone who scratches beneath the PR B💩 knows.
For the last 12 months, wind has produced 30.2% of the UK"s electricity not the 14% she claimed @8:25
Of shore wind she says though
I find wind turbines elegant and beautiful. Is it just me?
I do too!!
Nope, I love them!
most people do. when they say "people find them unsightly" they're talking about a super minority of people and usually those people have ulterior motives anyway.
Me too. Better than oil wells.
Watch them eloquently catch fire and implode....KZhead has several videos.
These are a fantastic solution to solidify our energy security. With most oil producers being our adversaries and supporters of terrorism, it's a crime to continue importing any oil at all. It's unpatriotic to support oil imports.
We can see the massive transformer facility being built from our window. Incredible engineering, amazing to see it on our front door!
Another quasi-environmentalist gloating over industrialized oceans. Do you want as much aesthetic blight, red lights all night and bird hazards on land, too? Look at this 2050 U.S. projection: kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Fig-2-JEsse-Event-2-1536x950.png
What isn't explained is the turbines, themselves, do not drive the cost of electricity. Gas still drives the cost of electricity and, therefore, the war in Ukraine. It's too bad that information isn't shared in a video like this as it leaves as mostly just a FUD video. The woman working the tower is a trooper. Looks like she has found the field for her!
Agreed, media isn't interested in the complex story of energy transition is it? Just opinions of people who don't understand the moving parts. Good to see Grimsby in an article though
The omission of this is disingenuous at best. The cynic in me, or is it the realist is that there was a negative slant on the whole article.
Entirely false. Go read about Denmark's electrical grid. Edit, just to preempt any idiocy from genius commentors: As Denmark's gross electrical consumption increased from 19% wind energy in 2005 to 45% in 2017, the amount of greenhouse gas produced per megawatt-hour of electricity produced fell from 571 Kg to 285 Kg -- almost exactly a 50% reduction in fossil fuels used to "transition" energy, as you arbitrarily describe. That's an amazing inverse ratio between the increase of wind-farmed electricity and fuel burnt. Source: EnergiNet, Denmark's own gov't institution that administrates energy.
That's because Europe uses weird merit order pricing. But it only became a bad thing BECAUSE of the variability imposed by variable renewables.
@@travisolander4749 what's "entirely false"?
Electricity prices, like any other commodity, are set "on the margin" - whatever the most expensive form of energy that is required to make up the total needed drives the price. In the case of the UK, it still needs to burn natural gas to generate energy. Unfortunately, in the past year, natural gas prices were set by the Ukraine conflict. Therefore, energy prices in the UK were set by the high price of natural gas. Those wind farms were, therefore, fabulously profitable, because they were able to sell into an electricity market where the prices were being set by the price of natural-gas generated electricity, while their costs were a lot lower. But the CEO was exactly right - one part of the solution is more wind-generated energy, and more broadly, by eliminating/reducing reliance on natural gas as a means of generating electricity. Those old guys moaning about how electricity hasn't come down in price - that's the fault of still relying on natural gas, not the fault of the wind farms. They're simply flat ignorant.
Yes exactly. It is wierd 60 minutes would leave out that key important fact. It it just poor journalistic capability or intentional bias.
Correct, I made a similar comment. Its astonishing how 60 Minutes didn't mention that (or chose to ignore it to spread FUD).
Odd way to price electricity. Normally have a contract between generator and distributer . 😅Usually before a project starts . In which case wind electricity would still be at contract rates.
@@alantrex7340 I think the way it works nowadays in the UK is that the government guarantees a price that makes a new project viable, the electricity gets sold at the market price, if that's below the guaranteed price the government makes up the shortfall, but if (as has mostly been the case in recent years) the electricity market price turns out to be above the guaranteed price, the wind companies have to send all excess profit to the government. Prospectively, when each new project is being agreed, the wind company gets a guarantee that they won't get a loss-making price if prices are lower than expected, in exchange for giving up any windfall (ha!) profits from prices being higher than expected.
Denmark has the most expensive electricity on earth. Great success. 😂
Kudos to Ms. Salmon. Awesome work with those wind turbines.
I live in the central United States and my electric has doubled also...as of 8-6-23.
The current price here in the UK is 29p Kw (33c)plus a daily charge of 50p (57c)PLUS 5% tax.
You could get some solar panels and make your own
The United States has 4% of the population and has emitted over 1/2 of all the carbon dioxide that is causing Climate Change, as well as being the one country that has blocked a solution more than all other countries combined. The transition would have been so much easier, and without threatening our very existence without Mitch McConnell and all the science-denying Republicans saying for 40 years that it was a hoax.
The US has the largest nuclear reactor fleet in the world with 92 reactors and currently around 60 of those are reaching the end of their life (all built in the 70's/80's with 40 or 50 year lifespans), with only around 8 new reactors being built thanks to slow local governments and the anti-nuclear brigade the US is walking straight into an energy-crisis of it's own.
@@krashd Germany had a large Nuclear power capability and after Fukushima, they decided to get rid of them, despite the fact that Germany never suffers from Tsunamis and concentrate on gas from Russia. Well look how that turned out for them, they are now having to recommission Coal plants now
The US has 65,000 windmills producing enough power for 39 million homes.
They also produce many billions of tons of flour unless you mean wind turbines? 😉
Still less per capita than the UK and the UK is building another 2 even bigger than the one here.
I’m American and I work on this wind farm.
As a Brit I am sorry that you are being subjected to Grimsby. You could probably escape via the US embassy.
The truth is, regardless of what you think of offshore wind, we NEED it to keep our global emissions in check. This is the price we pay for generations of unchecked pollution and carelessness.
There are wind turbines all along the shores in Sri Lanka. They remind me of 'the tripods' in a sci-fi novel I read in junior high school circa 1967.
War of the Worlds? Famous sci-fi novel about alien tripods invading Earth, there has been several movies based on the novel in the past few years.
It was not made clear that people's electricity prices had increased due to the higher price of Gas used to make electricity, due to the war in Ukraine and NOT due the cost of renewables like Wind - they would have known this and chose to leave it out!
Exactly, the wholesale price of a particular power producer and the retail price a local utility charges that buys from multiple producers are two different things.
I look forward to retirement so I can be like those two old guys sitting on the dock being grumpy and disagreeable. I'll spend my days complaining and moaning about everything that's new.
I used to live near Grimsby in the '90s and visit often, great town so good to see it getting some recognition again.
Living in a country where if its windy like today 7-8-2023 the power is free 24/7 at least for the next 48 hours you might even get payed to use power in some cases ofc the whole country only needs around 4.6-5 GW at the max(after normal work time this goes down ofc) and atm wind power is making 5.475 MW and we are exporting 1.383 MW to other countrys. So yes wind power does pay and yes you can see it on your power bills unless you got a fixed rate you pay for power?
Let me guess... Denmark
Our energy prices here in the UK have gone up because the price is set from fosssil fuels and has always has! We only got 4% of gas from Russia but the prices are set on the global market! As soon as we un tether energy prices from gas we will all pay 80% less! Unfortunately our GOV have shares in oil and gas and go out of their way to frustrate green energy to their own ends! The UK supports green energy our robbing political party’s benefit from our dependance on oil they profit from! (All party’s past and present since the 90’s )
Hello from Denmark we had free power the last 2 days in the nordic countries because of the storm here. windmills works very good.
Great story. Simple elegant visuals, a comprehensive view and plenty of crucial content. I'll give more 60 Minutes stories a look.
"Simple elegant visuals" are you 12 lol how about facts and logical reasoning ? Not one wind farm anywhere around the world has generated even close to the amount of energy it required to build /upkeep them and they keep saying oh in 2035.. how do you think electric charging stations get power? It's not electric 😕
When you have enough renewables to displace gas peaker plants electricity prices will drop like a stone. The UK is getting there with over 60% of electricity coming from renewables for three hours on a weekday last week and the build of the new world's biggest wind farm, the Dogger Bank wind farm, started last week.
That's NOT how current renewable energy technologies work. For the long foreseeable future, peaker plants using natural gas is the primary technology. If you don't understand why, find a Mechanical Engineer friend to explain how various power generation technologies work (assuming his degree was worth far more than the paper it's printed on).
@@wingman31k That is _exactly_ how it works though, Denmark is the proof. If you generate more power than you can use at peak then peaker plants become obsolete. When Denmark has excess generation it either sells the excess or it disconnects wind turbines from the grid.
Use the waves in conjunction. Both wind and wave energy can be in one unit.
The sea state here is actually quite calm !
I like many others support wind farms both at sea and on land. I believe the future has to be electric and that’s why in my small way I’m trying to do my bit with solar panels a battery and an EV. I’m not so keen on nuclear because of the risks however small they might be, unless of course the scientists come up with nuclear fission. At the moment we 🇬🇧 are leaders in wind technology I just hope it remains that way.
In what way are you leaders in wind technology?!
@@fastertove The UK had the most offshore wind generation in the world but in the last 12 months China has over taken us. China has in the last year created more renewable energy generation, than the rest of the world combined
@@fastertove I’ll rephrase that for your benefit we are the leaders in off shore wind.
@@wobby1516 Makes more sense :). I were a little puzzles by how GB already had more than Denmark's 50% energy from wind.
Correct... Great Britain is the leader in offshore wind. Texas is the leader (by a factor of at least 3 times) in onshore wind in the US, likely the world.
More off shore wind turbines actually drive the cost of electricity down. Denmark has the highest coverage of electricity produced by off shore wind farms ind the world. At the moment there are 112 % green energy (solar and wind) in the danish grid. 99% coming from wind. The spot cost pr. kwh is around 2 cents. This is how ever a windy day, which drives down the cost. On average in July 2023 the cost has been 8 cents to the kwh. before transmission cost and taxes. This is comparable to the cheapest US states like Texas and considerably below expensive states like New York.
If wind energy drives down the cost why is the cost of electricity so high in Denmark?
@@rayshepherd2479 Private households pay very high taxes on electricity in Denmark which put the kwh. prices at top 3 in Europe. If you look at the prices paid by businesses who does not pay the same taxes it's around the european average. The transmission cost is still pretty high at electricity demand is growing fast due to increased demand for transportation, heavy industry production and heating. The grid needs to be beefed up and this is paid for by transmission cost. If you look at the bare price of producing electricity the danish base price at hovering around the third lowest in the EU.
@HenrikRewes So transmission costs are high. Is the reason because wind is variable so you need something to back it up when the wind doesn't blow? Here in California it's probably why the cost of electricity is so high compared to other states. Price is not only high but power shutdowns are fairly frequent compared to the past.
Comments are amazing... its clear few (of those making comments) may not have much prior knowledge of windpower, let alone in Great Britain and the North Sea. Norway & the Dutch have been pioneers in windpower for decades. And Great Britain... no one on this forum seems to realize that the waters around the British Isles is the domain of the British Monarchy, who not only lease the use of these waters for windpower, but also collect a fraction of the power generation and were the greatest advocates of this renewable energy. Despite what this news story says, the UK policy was set in stone by the British Monarchy and its influence long long ago, decades ago.
I find wind turbines elegant and beautiful. Is it just me?. Amazing engineering.
Dude was great on Breaking Bad. Glad to see him move on to another career.
off the north shore of england, there's also been new contracts for oil drilling too
tories gonna tory...
yep, because oil isn't just used for fuel, but you knew that didnt you?
hey Qball what do you think happens when one starts to interupt the natural flow of wind ?
I love how he says "we have a terrible energy cricis in Europe at the moment, and in Brittan at the moment. Tells me that the EU doesn't miss the brits at all.
It's likely he has got used to answering "In the UK, and Europe" to humour brexit supporters because the folks who voted for Brexit genuinely think that the UK is not in Europe. Either they can't tell the difference between the continent and the EU or they are just stupid, voting to leave the biggest economic bloc on Earth makes me think the latter.
@@krashd the uk and eu have a trade deal, what is your complaint?
Wow, 1 rev = power for home for a day?? Lets build millions of them!!
He’s doing a good job😊
I'm a half minute in and paused... first question.. how do you protect it if it's off shore
This was so cool. These jobs are important and innovative.
Offshore wind installations are set to reach 18.4GW in 2023, a record. 1:01[WFO Global]
Offshore Wind Energy Market is projected to expand at more than 16% CAGR from 2023 to 2032. Rising investments towards clean energy infrastructure and favourable government policies will spur the industry expansion. 1:11[Global Market Insights]
Wind and solar are the predominant sources of power generation in the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario, but annual wind capacity additions until 2030 need to increase significantly to be on track with the Net Zero pathway. 1:23 [IEA]
The US has plenty of potential for off-shore wind power generation on the massive coasts on the pacific, atlantic and gulf of Mexico.
thank teddy kennedy for killing it every time on the east coast of massachusetts .
Windmills are much more photogenic than oil rigs. And they don't spill.
You're just saying that because there's never been a big wind spill yet.
Can't wait for the next project to start!!
Wind turbines are elegant and decorous. I'm proud of working as an engineer in the wind industry.
Hello, since youre in wind industry, can you explain to me how produced electricity get transmitted to shore? Is there a cable below the sea? I tried to read some articles but I couldnt find any information about cables. If cables go under water, do they stable the cables to the ground or do they bury them under the ground?
How do you maintain cables? I think they are corroded because they are in water. How do you overcome corrosion? (my questions might look stupid, I havent taken any engineering class yet. And sorry about my poor english, Im still trying to learn it) 😊
They usually run all cables through a bigger pipe made/ coated in zinc or aluminum alloy@@eisenkimin
@@eisenkimin all wind turbines are connected to a substation located in the offshore windpark usually converting AC into DC in order to transport more energy to the shore where the DC usually being converted back to AC for the general power grit. The cables themself are laying with a anticorrosion material coverage on the ground of the sea so a maintenance is normally not necassary.
Fascinating story. Didn't know of that wind farm so very interesting. Quite the job having to climb those certainly not your average day job lol
Better than going down in a hole to dig coal, or breathing the fumes from the refinery, or skimming the oil off of our water. Solar wind farms are cleaner than just the energy they produce.
If you really want to soil your nappies I recommend the report here on KZhead about guys in Spain who climb the blades for cleaning them.
Tesla already makes large scale energy storage called "Megapacks," that can store huge amounts of energy from a wind farm like this when the wind is not blowing. Plus the more Megapack facilities you have the fewer peaker plants you need, which seriously jack up the cost of electricity. The west coast of the US is perfect for tons of these wind farms because of the shallow ocean topography offshore. We have not even began to discover ways to harness the potential energy from the ocean through moving water and temp. differences..
It is great, but currently all Megapacks are 5 GWh, one hour of eg Danish electricity consumption. We need much more storage.
Where do the used blades go after replacing…….?
What happens to 787 wings when they are retired? What happens to fracking fluid? What happens to coal fly ash? What happens to spent nuclear waste? What happens to all the plastic in cars? What happens to all the abandoned oil wells? What happens to toxic coal mine tailings? What happens to people who can't drink water from their wells because of fracking? What happens to the 226 million iPhones apple sells every year?
If wind is only 14% I'm not sure what kind of reduction they would expect to see in bills at that point, especially not with oil prices still going up. Even if you aren't seeing a reduction, the one thing you can say with certainty is that your bill is going up because of gas and oil so why would you want to keep using it. We can't become shortsighted because we want instant gratification.
Exactly this. Whatever makes people feel good.
In the meantime the UK imports ""Biofuel"" from the USA. The green biofuel is from the millions of trees the USA kills to make little wood pellets (7 million metric tons) to ship to the UK and EU for their power plants to burn. Yea killing trees that suck in CO2 and produce O2 so it can be burned is very good for the earth. Besides burning wood doesn't pollute or make CO2 plus all of those ships to move the stuff are green as well right?
We do have one last coal generation plant that runs on biomass imported from the US but that wont last forever. It was planned for closure 2024 but thats been put back due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
@@stevehayward1854 That "one" just happens to be one of the biggest power plants on the planet though 🤣 And Drax's hunger can see it get through an entire ship of pellets in two days.
@@krashd The Co2 created by shipping it here is enormous, I wonder if that is included in their estimates
Not reporting that electricity prices in the UK are currently tied to gas prices. Poor journalism or intentional?
Wind and solar nafe no fuel costs. Unlike any type of fosel fuel. That is overlooked many times.
That’s a beautiful site, also “once the fishing left “ is code for once we stopped taking advantage of an other country
Too bad they can't build one just off the Florida coast, directly east of Motel Lardo.
When he's finally locked up, I hope his cell has a view of a wind turbine.
@@mb-3faze ROFL
According to the IEA wind can power the entire globe eleven times over.
That may be true but how affordable will the green energy be for the poorest of society>???? Everything green so far including green hydrogen gas remains quite expensive and out of reach for many. A few countries like Finland have however so far managed to make green energy affordable for the masses but that is because Finland has always been a generous welfare state
Harnessing and storing said power is where the expense lies.
@@jarednovel Solar and wind are the cheapest energy sources we know of! The problem with the apparent cost is that Oil and Gast are globally subsidised. In the UK the Tories have fixed the price of electricity to that generated by using hydrocarbons. Also the carbon emissions are not costed... The national grid surcharge scheme is a huge scam. The further north and west you go the more you need to pay to add electrical power to the grid. Scotland pays a fortune to add renewable energy to the grid. No such charges are made for adding oil and gas...
@@jarednovel India uses a lot of solar energy. This type of energy is particular good in poor areas because it very modular with many smaller investments rather than one huge. Large parts of Africa could also benefit greatly from this, and makes it less risky for foreign investors. Yes, green energy is more expensive than fossil energy why a strong state, like Finland's, is needed to help the change.
So can solar. It;s just a matter of using the one that best suites the location. I think cities closer to the shore would benefit more from this than anything else. There's no one size fits all solution but we should explore all options.
I believe the fish wars between UK and Iceland was pretty tense with trawlers ramming other trawlers
How about looking into geothermal energy systems. I know that there are new systems that can be set up anywhere in the world. I'd like to know how close they are to going commercial.
Electricity prices have doubled because of the war in Ukraine, not because of wind turbines.
You know what’s ugly? Smog, tornado destruction, burning forests, dried up coral reefs…..
Do you honestly believe tornadoes quit blowing, burning forests stop burning and coral reefs stop drying up if we weren’t here? Your lack of logic is mind boggling. Pre industrial revolution history says none of that stops. Btw….I 100% support wind power, but I am also not so naive to believe that it stops or even slows down the natural disasters or environmental ailments you cited(except smog of course).
Two million homes wow!
Price of wholesale electricity is linked to the global price of gas. While the trading speculators determine the price of gas, the price of electricity is not dependant on what's being built or how many. So your report is misleading.
I LOVE wind turbines! I think they are so beautiful and elegant, and yet everyone I know says they are horrible, destroy the landscape, make too much noise for people living nearby... I don't live right under one - maybe they do make noise. But my heart always lifts a bit when I see them. Who knows? Maybe centuries ago people thought that windmills were a blot on the landscape and shouldn't be allowed.
It's not about aesthetics, it's about safety. Offshore windfarms not only have barges anchored on the water year round with upwards of 40k gallons of transformer oil (not to burst your bubble, but they use oil to run)...they also create a personal and National security threat by creating Doppler Radar blind spots that inhibit search and rescue, as well as blind the DOD, Navy and Airforce to incoming threats.
@@elewmompittseh this is the most idiotic whining I’ve ever seen. Why don’t you bring up dead birds and infrasound while you’re at it.
Wind farms are like city skylines. They can be beautiful even majestic. The old first generation of windmills with their gray lattice framework structures were truly hideous. However, the new sleek white tubular designs are elegant. Anyone who says modern wind turbines are ugly has an ugly hurtful soul.
I'm with you on that, I charge my Tesla site that has wind turbine right next door and it's a great feeling knowing I'm topping my car up on clean electricity generated on these majestic beautiful machines. Theres something soothing about watching massive blades spin slowly around
I could see 6 turbines from my bedroom window. I enjoyed watching them going around.
"Critics say they are expensive to build and maintain, unpredictable and ugly".. that didn't stop those very same critics from trying to build a wall.
For domestic electricify prices, I think it is more useful to look to how UK has controlled the market rather than the economics of the offshore wind farm Yanis Varoufakis has an enlightening explanation
Not seeing any benefits? lol. At the end of the day each turbine is reducing some tons of CO2 that would have been added to the environment without it. Can't see Co2 can you?
The fisherman can't see the advantages of wind farms because there is no oil slick or air pollution. Oil has destroyed the fishing industry in more than one place. You know about the Exxon Valdez and the Deepwater Horizon platform in the gulf. Oil is a disaster. The easiest is not always the best. Laziness will destroy life on Earth.
To generate a megawatt it would take about 1,000 pounds of coal, 20 gallons of oil or 30 MINUTES of the average wind turbine spinning at 11 mph. Its clear that wind is effective.
I think they're cool looking and not ugly at all!
It's a wind wind.
I choked when that guy said electric bills would go down. If it's cheaper to produce the savings goes to profits of stockholders not to customers.
Price per kilowatt wind is a lot cheaper to produce….i have dominion (Virginia) mostly sourced by good ol coal and my electrical bill was over 400 dollars. I welcome the change. ALOT dumb Americans still don’t even understand that coal power plants aren’t running 24/7 and price per kilowatt.the most expensive energy source we have…Wind is actually a lot cheaper to run because there’s less maintenance involved.
@@NicholasOrlickall you need to do to get energy from coal is find a rock and burn it. It’s both the cheapest and dirtiest fuel for a reason.
@@samnaterYou also need to remove it from the ground and transport it--both of which are energy intensive and why the fracking boom undercut the price of coal in our economy, which is now being outdone by wind and more slowly, solar.
@@NicholasOrlick They should just convert all the coal plants into nuclear. It may not be the cheapest but it works 24/7 and the fuel is good for years.
@@taiwanluthiers not that easy, quick and expensive - current UK nuclear being built is over $30B, over 10 years to build and electricity is at least 200% more than wind.
What is the cost of marine life? And how long have those wind farms been in place and working?
It's Grimsby up north.
lmao just build nuclear
Offshore wind costs half what nuclear does.
KILLING THE WHALES
Please show the evidence.
That’s the oil industry
60 minutes, presented in 13 and a half minutes. Woo!
Especially in offshore wind farms, the turbines seem widely spaced. No doubt, if too close together, they would interfere with each other's windstream. What determines the minimum spacing? And, why does it seem the offshore turbines have wider spacing? I certainly am not in the crowd who feels wind farms are ugly! Quite the opposite, it's about time.
They purposely chose a female worker for this mini documentary
Visit a wind farm and walk around. You'll be amazed at all the chopped up birds there.
And you will get cancer as well, isn't that also part of the Trump lies. For starters it is nothing like as bad as some make it out to be, plus just what do you think burning stuff does to the atmosphere? Just like us humans wildlife also suffers due to air pollution, in fact it is way more harmful only more distributed and in a way slower. Here is a quote from a EU study "Studies show that ash from coal power plants contains significant quantities of arsenic, lead, thallium, mercury, uranium and thorium. To generate the same amount of electricity, a coal power plant gives off at least ten times more radiation than a nuclear power plant." - does that sound good to you?
Unlike oil rigs and refinaries which create a paridise for birds and other animals. LOL
Unlike oil rigs and refinaries which create a paridise for birds and other animals. LOL
4 birds annually afaik (old number, can have changed).
US fisheries and wildlife figures show that the biggest killer of birds are domestic cats at 2.4 billion, windows cause the deaths of 599,000,000 birds per year, collision with electricity lines kills 25,500,000 birds and onshore wind turbines is 242,000.
11:42 Cost of residential electricity doubled. That is typical for grid electricity rates when they start paying for wind farm electric generators. In the USA electric rates have always gone up when onshore wind farm costs start to be included. Offshore wind farms are about double the cost per MW as onshore wind farms.
Love the future. Is like nature trying to tell us there is other ways.
Ruler joe Biden is awful
What’s the cost per mwhr?
Amazing a impact drill and all that compressed air and the reduction of engine needed if air wheel drive married the.gas. engine
What we have inUS is wind so its smart. Also half of the County is hot desert so there are options to move away from old ways
Hurricane harvesting technology needs to be developed quickly Every hurricane has enough wind power to run a city for more than a month
Which is why offshore wind farms down the east coast of the US combined with enormous energy storage facilities on shore should be a no-brainer for Americans. Building hurricane-proof turbines is the only problem, wind turbines don't like high speeds but there has to be a way to design a turbine that can use it's gearbox in moderate winds but bypass the gearbox for heavy winds.
@@krashd energy storage? Like what? you cant store energy in a battery for commercial needs, there is no power storage large enough.
Rate of inflation has gone up all over the world. However uk electricity is privatised and the profits aren't always passed on to the customers. As investors are prioritised. Also the job market will be nominal. A few hundred people in a town or thousands is nominal. Maybe Grimsby needs better transport links. Such as a train to Hull, and a train connection to York.
Western Europe is crowded and the North Sea is relative shallow so offshore wind energy makes more sense than in vast USA where one can do it on land.
Wind is stronger and more reliable offshore. No hills or buildings to get in the way. Also, the size of the blades makes transport across land a challenge.
@@jools2323 I know about the stronger wind on see but I thought that the cost / benefit on land is still favorable compared to sea. Maintenance on land is easier.
True for Texas and the Midwest, but for the North East offshore wind makes more sense as they have stronger offshore wind and are more populated.
there are floating turbines now so that's no longer an issue. It's just a matter of finding areas offshore with sustainable wind.
The eastern coast of the US doesn't have good wind onshore and many parts are highly populated, so offshore wind does make sense. It is mostly a failure of public policy why offshore wind has failed. Rules like the Jones Act make if very difficult.
Crazy how one revolution can power a single home for one day
The price of wind generated electricity in the UK is pegged to the price of gas generated power. This has been government policy for decades and is a legacy from the infancy of the Wind Power industry over 20 years ago. In the early days wind energy was far more costly than fossil fuel generated power. The government paid subsidies to enable the nascent wind power industry to grow. With economies of scale and improvements in technology the levelised cost of wind energy is now significantly lower than that from gas power stations. This led to the absurd situation over the winter 2022/23 when gas prices went up by ten times and the government had to step in to subsidise consumer bills by spending billions of pounds. Most of this money went as massive profits to both the gas producers and the wind power generation industry. The UK government has been talking about reforming the energy market for years but nothing has happened. Gas power station owners don't want to be undercut by wind power and the wind industry are quite happy about taking increasing profits, so things are stuck with no benefit to the consumer. Currently the UK derives about 40% of it's electricity from renewable sources. It is a complicated issue. While we still consume 33% gas generated power there has to be an incentive to the gas industry to invest in gas power . With increasing renewable generation , at some point this policy has to change. So no, currently the only people with reduced bills are those with their own windmills/solar panels.